Still doesn’t get it.
“When you start saying, at a time when the top one-tenth of 1 percent has seen their incomes go up four or five times over the last 20 years, and folks at the bottom have seen their incomes decline — and your response is that you want poor folks to pay more?
Give me a break.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.”
Well genius, as we discovered before Millionaires already pay a higher tax rate – much higher – than a janitor and incidentally pay more than the 45% of Americans who pay no income tax.
But beyond that, Andrew Malcolm notes this gaffe in the speech that as expected the MSM wouldn’t translate correctly.
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